Datong

Datong is a city in northern Shanxi Province, . A former frontier town and Northern Wei capital, it is best known for the Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Monastery, as well as numerous religious sites in its redeveloped Ancient City center.
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  • City with about 3,110,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,040 metres (3,420 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DAT
  • …was formerly known as “平城”
  • …is named after 因大同川而得名，并取“天下大同之意”
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China
  • Also known as
    “Dagu”
    “Datong (Shanxi Sheng, China)”
    “Datong City”
    “Datong Shi”
    “Datun”
    “Ta-jen”
    “Ta-jen-hsien”
    “Ta-ku”
    “Ta-t’ung”
    “Ta-t’ung-hsien”
    “Ta-t’ung-shih”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Discover Shanhua Temple and Drum Tower.
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Buddhist temple
is a Buddhist temple located in Datong, Shanxi Province, .
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西安兵马俑, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Railway station
The railway station is a railway station of Beijing–Baotou railway and Datong–Puzhou railway.

Datong

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Latitude
40.0923° or 40° 5′ 32″ north
Longitude
113.2953° or 113° 17′ 43″ east
UN/LOCODE
CN DAT
Open location code
8PGM37RW+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244077962
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
2037799
Wiki­data ID
Q72877

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Datong” goes by many names.
DatongAfrikaans
داتونغArabic
ԴատունArmenian
DatongAsturian
DatongBasque
ДатунBelarusian
ডাটংBengali
তাটংBengali
তাথুংBengali
দাটংBengali
DatongBreton
ДатунBulgarian
DatongCatalan
DatongCebuano
Datong ShiCebuano
Dàtóng ShìChinese
大同Chinese
大同市Chinese
DatongCroatian
Ta-tchungCzech
DatongDanish
DatongDutch
داتونجEgyptian Arabic
DatongEsperanto
DatongoEsperanto
DatongFinnish
DatongFrench
大同市Gan Chinese
ტათუნგიGeorgian
DatongGerman
ΝτάτονγκGreek
ડાટોંગGujarati
דאטונגHebrew
दातुंगHindi
TatungHungarian
DatongIndonesian
DaidoInterlingua
DatongInterlingua
DatongIrish
DatongItalian
大同市Japanese
ಡಾಟೊಂಗ್Kannada
ДатунKazakh
DatongKikuyu
다퉁 시Korean
DatongaLatvian
DatunaLatvian
DatongasLithuanian
ДатонгMacedonian
DatongMalagasy
DatongMalay
डाटोंगMarathi
Dâi-dùngMin Dong Chinese
Tāi-tông-chhīMin Nan Chinese
ДатунMongolian
DatongNorwegian
DatongNorwegian Bokmål
DatongNorwegian Nynorsk
DatongOccitan (post 1500)
داتونگPersian
DatongPolish
DatongPortuguese
ДатунRussian
ДатунгSerbian
DatongSerbo-Croatian
ඩේටොන්ග්Sinhala
DatongSlovenian
DatongSpanish
DatongSwedish
Datong ShiSwedish
DatongTagalog
டாடாங்Tamil
ДатуңTatar
డాటోంగ్Telugu
ต้าทงThai
DatongTurkish
داتۇڭ شەھىرUighur
ДатунUkrainian
داتونگUrdu
DatongVenetian
Đại ĐồngVietnamese
Đại Đồng, Sơn TâyVietnamese
DatongWaray (Philippines)
DatongWelsh
大同市Wu Chinese
大同Yue Chinese
大同市Yue Chinese

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